The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-07-14
THE CoUNTRY,s CAPITAL.
ssLIeSxam's'' Letter From Washing
ton City.


Special Correspondence to The Sentinel.
WASHINGTON, July 12.-When, be-
cause of the flag incident and the We
toed pauper pension bill, some of the
Grand Army posts of Iowa and other
States denounced President Cleveland
and adopted resolutions strongly OBJ
jecting to his presence in st. Louis
during the forthcoming annual en-
campment of the Grand Army in
that city; when threats were made by
individual members of that organiza
ton that, if Mr.. Cleveland accepted
the invitation of St. Louis and put in
an appearance at that time, he would
be snubbed and even insulted, L stood
talking with several Washington
newspaper correspondents and hazard
ed the suggestion that those resolut-
ions and declarations would prove to
be boomerang of the first water.
And the suggestion has already de-
veloped into prophecy.
THE PRESIDENTS POSITION.
Mr.. Cleveland has written letter
to the Mayor, and citizens committee
of St. Louis, declining to visit that
city at that time. Not that he is
afraid of being "insulted"- the
life of the man who should attempt
such an outrage would not be worth
an insurance policy on a moments
longevity; but because as he says, he
feels bound to protect the dignity of
the great Office he temporarily occu-
pies. He also seems to share, in a
degree, the ideas voiced by Hamlet
when he said:
"You would play upon re; you would
seem to know my stops; you would pluck
out the heart of my mystery; you would
sound me from my lowest note to the top of
my compass and there is much music, ex-
cellent voices in this little organ, yet can
not you make it speak. 'Sblood. do you
think / am easier to be played on than a
pipe? Call me what instrument you will,
though you can fret, you cannot play upon
me-"
And, so, the reaction has set in.
The citizens of St. Louis and fair
minded people everywhere, of every
political complexion, are highly indig-
nant at the action of the Grand
Army" What was intended to in
jure President Cleveland and the
Democratic party will rebound to the
| individual respect, esteem and popu-
larity of the one and the political well
fare and esteem of the other. 4e in
sensate fools Well may you exclaim :
80, my offence is rank; it smells to heaven %
I've got machine for grinding out
poetry, myself, and if you will send
the SENTINEL devil up to Washing
ton to turn the crank" he will be
allowed to manipulate the muse until
he produces the following beautiful
stanza, with this preface:
To be read by Commander Anathema
Fairchild, upon the assembling of the
Grand Army in st. Louis:
] Yankee Doodle come to town
| Upon a little pony,
| A tbloody shirt" was on his back,
And the steed was poor and bony.
| He wore a feather in his cap
A "plumed knight" of deception
And the good people Whereabouts
Gave him a cold reception.
| Yankee Doodle
But the roof will probably fall in
about that time.
CLEVELAND COMING TO CAROLINA.
The cancellation of the Presidents
St. Louis engagement has materially
altered his plans. He has decided
not to go West at all this fall, but tx
90 South instead. He will visit AT
lanta during the Piedmont exposition
probably on the 18th of October. Oul
State Fair opens on the 18th of tha
month, so that on his way back from
Atlanta he can very conveniently
take the Raleigh train at Greensboro
and spend day at North Carolina
capital, and | learn to-day that it i
very probable that he will do so. Thi
is not a mere conjecture, but yer,
strong and possible probability, and
think you can very safely count OF
Mr. Cleveland's presence at the mex
State Fair. It has been a great many
Ammo Dominis since we have had ,
real live President ON exhibition il
n orth Carolina, and no doubt ou
good people will flock to Raleigh b,
the thousands to see our Democratic
executive. That he will be given
right royal, old fashioned, genuin
Tarheel reception, goes without say
ing. 'Rah for Cleveland! Yes, an,
'Rah for Mrs. Cleveland, too. TAX
your bonny bride along with you, MI
President, by all means.
Congressman Gibson, of West Vir
ginia, was in Washington yesterday
He has been one of the most pronoun
ced of Democratic opponents of thi
Administration. But he has been con
verted by the battle-fags incident an,
the war made upon the President b
the Grand Army. cleveland will b
renominated," said he, "by acclams
E ton; yes, and he will be triumphant
reelected, too" This opinion is gen
orally shared among prominent Dem
ocrats. If Cleveland is renominate
and reelected the Republicans hav
only themselves t. blame. Unwilling
ly they have brought it about. A
long as the Republicans and the Re
publican newspapers commended an
praised the President, as was the cas-
during the first year of this admins
tration, Democrats found cause t
complain but now that they hav
bodily jumped on the Executive an
are trying their level best to defeat hir
for denomination, the Democrat
party is practically unanimous in til
opinion that he is the most availabl
mar. None of us are so dull as to b
unable to read the Republican oppo
sition handwriting on the wall. II
sum and substance is the word Fea
They are afraid of Cleveland, know
) ing his popularity with the people, an